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Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape-hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385094238Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523246427Author J RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Adrienne Rich whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (The New York Times) was the singular voice of her generation. She brought discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of...

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.Book InformationISBN...

The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960954Author Gloria Anzald aFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute BooksWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140422900Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530785Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131700Author sam saxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596759Author Dean RaderFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939660216Author Camille Hamilton Adams HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Sweet Lady PressPublisher Sweet Lady PressWeight(grams) 195g

Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America's most cherished poets-celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980704Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work, including new poems that remind us of his prefatory statement: "Art is the chalice into which we pour the wine of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938853579Author Diane KistnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Futurecycle PressPublisher Futurecycle PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A NEW YORKER BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A VULTURE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Selected by Fady...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579032Author Shira ErlichmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595097Author Natalie ShaperoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 142g

Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original...

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019New Statesman's best books of the year, 2018This new book of poems and essays by Eileen Myles finds our game-changing writer keying lines in the euphoric style that the New York Times has called 'one of the...

Kimiko Hahn, "a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury Review), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu-literally "running brush," which utilizes tactics such as juxtaposition, contradiction, and broad topical variety-in...

Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have entertained us for more than half a century and his...

Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have entertained us for more than half a century and his...

With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life's dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the world stage-the war in Iraq, the 2004 Asian tsunami-or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524855031Author Taisia KitaiskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel Publishing

A mosaic of lyrical vignettes, at once deeply personal and political, set against the turbulent backdrop of Arab/Western relations. Adnan writes, "Contrary to what is usually believed, it is not general ideas and grandiose unfolding of great events that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951197001Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Blackberry Publishing GroupPublisher Blackberry Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent...

James Kirkwood Full Length, Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female Interior Set In the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired...

In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico-and directly from the Greek myth itself-Rita Dove explores this relationship and the dilemma of letting go.Pulitzer Prize winner; Poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571748300Author Kahil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co

"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes,...

A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337168Author Khaled MattawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly...

A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry A CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry A Bustle Best Book of 2020 A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020 "Some girls are not made," torrin a. greathouse writes, "but spring from the dirt."...

Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156722513Author Wilbur RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc